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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 3h

a thing that's always really bothered me about indie game world from the beginning is it's entirely dependent on connections and you have no idea if what anyone is telling you is true or not because there are very few people who care about your interests. cold take: unions and co-ops are necessary!

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

I will say that nothing is more baffling to me than the industry standard that we teach developers about publishing by having them listen to talks and panels by publishers. It's like fiscal responsibility taught by a loan shark, privacy taught by Google, or human rights taught by Israel.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 31m

I genuinely can’t decide if it would be better or worse for this dogwhistle to be accidental or intentional.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

wait in honor of the guy who what by his fantasy with what the who?

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

ah, eto… *puts hands on butt* bleh

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

“atheism is responsible for trump! atheism is responsible for gamergate!” what life must be like for you, unable to meaningfully parse the events around you, but chiming in anyway. contributing nothing of value yet getting put on my feed all the same. your world must be fascinating and stupid.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 20d

“atheists think all religion is christianity!” and you think all atheism is some guy on reddit 10-20 years ago. why don’t you make some identical whiny, projecting posts about it every day forever some more about it?

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Troopers with batons aggressively shoving crowd back.

Just saw two demonstrators arrested.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

The pattern is they fire a ton of people, say they made a mistake, and then selectively rehire back only the most mediocre white men.

This is why Black women's unemployment has spiked, the federal government used to be the largest employer of Black women until these monte carlo firings

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

yeah! not always reliably, but its still worth actually buying the skills now for when things line up. She was pulling off multiple Aim +10 hits on Belias in the next battle.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

sorry to keep FFT-posting all day every day. this was one of my special interest games back in old times. previously I managed to keep myself from Star Ocean 2-posting, Suikoden-posting and Legend of Mana-posting this much but the dam finally burst.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

the way Aim worked in the previous editions you almost always gave up enough time for the enemy to move. because it charge time and speed were completely different stats, so Aim got progressively worse as units got faster. with the charge time reduction, you can reliably hit the stupid numbers

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

just to highlight when I said archer was massively improved in this remake, here is my archer with a spear right before she hit a knight for 798 damage using Aim +20, a skill that was laughably unusable in previous versions. Even accounting for her level and zodiac compatibility, that's big number.

A screenshot from Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles. Jenet, an archer, is preparing to use the skill Aim +20 on a knight for 798 damage.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

despite everything else, we're truly living in the golden age of mega man legends inspired visuals. if there is nothing positive you can say about our current era other than that then you're right, but still you can at least say that.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps my greatest work?

My version of the predator meme but with Kermit and Fozzy’s arms clasped.

“Fozzy, you son of a bitch!”

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

like, I get it. it can be frustrating if you're suffering or struggling in some way and you see general advice that you've already tried or that seems, or is, impossible for you, especially if you feel alone and isolated. but "abstractly frustrating" is not the same as "a personal insult."

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of people need to learn the lesson "advice given to a general audience and not you specifically does not necessarily have to account for you, a stranger's, specific circumstances and isn't a personal insult against you if it doesn't." its clearly not learned naturally, please take the time.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

the ability to create infinite new kinds of woman, each with different battlefield mechanics and equipment loadouts, the ultimate video game that still eludes us despite our technology and progress.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to need a new game with a "make weird builds for characters" fix after I finish FFT but I don't know what that is yet.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

its not just me right? the fucking wikipedia article even goes “this fable is so well known that french perverts would name their titty pictures after it and people would still get the reference.” what does she think she’s better than the french now??

a clip from the Wikipedia entry on The Ant and The Grasshopper. Under the heading “In Art” is a painting by Jules-Joseph Lefebvre of a naked dame with sweet cans titled “The Grasshopper”

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

just found out that my girlfriend doesn’t know the fable “the ant and the grasshopper” and was like “whats that?” and this is fucking me up. its weird, right? its like you know someone and then one day they go “cinderella? who’s that? have I met them?”

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

I don't actually know what happened tonight this is just naked, shameless pandering to my audience.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

baseball is the final fantasy tactics of sports in that it is best understood and appreciated by mentally ill women.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 2d

FFT is a real "master and break it" game so after years of ninja monks and calculators I appreciate being able to break it in entirely new ways. Jumping geomancer with an axe is also a good one, since jump ignores' the axe's unreliable damage formula and just focuses on the high attack power.

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